Advertising device.



10.000,351. EATENTEE SEPT. ze, 1005.

` B. BAKER.

ADVERTISING EEVIGE.

APPLICATION FILED MAB. 6 1905 Invenior.

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YUNITED STATES PATENT, onricn. I

i BENJAMIN BAKER, OF MONTREAL, CANADA.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

To LZZ whom t ,may concern: l

Be it known that I, .BENJAMIN BAKER, a subject of the King of Great Britain. residing at 5 Church street, in the city and district of Montreal, in the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in mechanical devices for advertising purposes, as described in the present specification and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, that form part of the same.

The improvement consists, essentially, of

an open casing, length or lengths of fiexible" material having advertisements placed thereon and arranged within thecasing to eclipse` at intervals, a device Iof an attractive nature appearing at the opening, and an arrangement of mirrors whereby the advertisements and the attractive feature will be reflected as each appears. f, .f

The object of the'v invention is to devise 'a form of advertising device which shall be inexpensive to manufacture and at the same time prove attractive to the eye and whereby the advertisement on appearing shall be multiplied several times by the reflections.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the device as it appears completed, showing the attractive feature in the arrangement partially eclipsed by the advertisement. Fig. Q is a cross-sectional-view of the casing containing the mechanism. Fig. 3 isa sectional view of the casing, showing the operating mechanism from the rear.

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each gure.

a is a casing open at the top, having the oblique sides and bl and the brackets c OZ and e f projecting upwardly from the said sides, respectively.

g and It are rollers journaled in suitable bearings in the brackets o e and d f, respectively.

i is a roller journaled in suitable bearings in the sides b and c in proximity to the bottom of the casing. j represents rollers of greater diameter fixedly secured on the shaft j', journaled to the rear of the casing adja- 'cent to the bottom' thereof in suitable beardriven pulley jg.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application ned March 6,1905. seria No. 248.781.

Patented Sept. 26, 1905.

and Z are belts extending from the driven rollers j around and passing over the rollers it, g, and z' adjacent to the sides thereof.

m is a shaft journaled in a bearing n, supported from the sides b and and located centrally therebetween and at the lower end journaled in a suitably-arranged socket 0. p is a worm toward the lower end of said shaft.

Q is a worm-wheel meshing with the worm o and tixedly secured on the shaft r. resents brackets having the bearings t at the top thereof, in which the said shaft r turns freely. i

'a is a pulley fixedly secured on the shaft r and connected by the belt o to the pulley f2.

w is a motor supported by the brackets w centrally within the casing and operating the shaft m.

.fr is a picture-disk turning with or freely on the pintle y, as may be desired. The pintle y is operated by the rotation ofthe shaft m,

Yhere understood that there may be more than one picture-disk at the end of the pintle y, and one may turn freely on said pintle and the other be fixed to turn therewith if it is desired to'vary the design.

.e represents mirrors formed in the shape of three sides of an` Octagon, the middle section of which is directly above the rear side .of the casing, the other sides forming wings therefrom.

2 isa mirrory opposite the mirrors z and supported by the rod 3, firmly secured to the middle section of said mirrors 2. The mir` lror 2 is slightly inclined inV a downward direction to reiect the picture-disk.

4 is a length of flexible material stretching from the belt c to the belt and secured thereto' and of sufficientwidth to eclipse the picture-disk.

This device is operated from the motor located centrally within the casing. This motor-rotates the shaft m, which in turn rotates Ato which'it is suitably connected. It must be the picture-disks and also the worm-wheel,

l which in turn rotates the roller j, and conse# tion. i

It will be seerrith at the attractive feature IOO .IOS eclipse the picture-disk once in each revolunamely, the pieture-disk-will be the means employed to draw passers-by to the device, and, perforce, they will be obliged to see the advertisement each time as it eclipses the disk.

More than one length of advertising material may be used, and thus obscure the picture-disk more frequently.

The mirror 2 is so arranged that the picture-disk or the advertisement will be reflected so as to appear in each of the mirrors .2, and consequently enhance the value of the device as an advertising medium by reproducing the advertisement several times.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. A mechanical device for advertising purposes comprising a casing open at the top thereof and having oblique sides, a plurality of bearings distributed in said oblique sides, a plurality of rollers journaled in said bearings, a pair of belts passing over and around said rollers, a bearing centrally located at the opening of said casing and supported from the sides thereof, a socket at the bottom of said casing, a shaft extending from said socket to the aforesaid central bearing and having' a worm toward its lower end, a picture-disk suitably mounted on a pintle and through said pintle operatively connected With the said shaft, a worm-Wheel meshing With the aforesaid Worm and suitably journaled in standards from the bottom of the boX and having belted connection with one of said rollers, and a motor located centrally soc,351

within the casingl and operating'said shaft, as and for the purpose specified.

2. A mechanical device comprising a casing open at the top thereof and having oblique sides, a mirror rising from the back of said casing, a pluralityof mirrors extending' laterally from the aforesaid mirror a further mirror facing` the said mirrors and the opening to the casing. a varying picture device suitably supported and appearing in said opening, and a length of flexible material arranged Within the casing to eclipse the said picture device at intervals, as and for the purpose specified.

3. A mechanical device for advertising purposes comprising an open casing, a plurality of mirrors arranged in the form of three sides` of an Octagon and located imn'iediately to the rear and above said casing, a mirror facing the aforesaid mirrors and supported therefrom, a varying picture device supported centrally and appearing in said opening, and a length of iiexible material havingadvertising matter thereon and arranged within the casing to eclipse at intervals the said picture device, as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof l have signed my naine to this specification in the presence of two su bscribing Witnesses.

B. BAhICR.

Witnesses:

WM. B. S. REDDY, J. AVELTINE. 

